# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S116
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116 Proceedings of the 28th General or

Resolved, that the Synod remember, as forcefully as possible with prayers and gifts, the work God has so richly blessed in this large and extremely promising territory. (About $12,000.00 a year is needed.)

Resolved, that the institution at Porto Alegre no longer be maintained, as before, from the treasury for the Brazil mission, but from the synodical treasury.²)

Resolved, to encourage Director Wegehaupt to accept subscriptions for the "Ev. Luth. Kirchenblatt für Braſilien" [Evangelical Lutheran Church Paper for Brazil], published by our brethren in South America.

Resolved, that for the institution in Brazil, the Commission for Home Missions Abroad, together with the supervisory board, have the right of election [of its faculty].

b. London.

Let the Mission Commission's report follow first:

The mission in this greatest of world cities was reported on at great length on the occasion of the previous Synod; we therefore take the liberty of being brief this time.

Pastor B. Poch, who for years carried on the Lord's work with great diligence in this vast city, has followed a call to the congregation in Grand Rapids, Mich. As his successor, the two congregations there called Pastor K. Knippenberg of Flensburg, Germany, who accepted the call and is now working in this part of God's vineyard under God's visible blessing.

Especially gratifying, and promising for the future, is that in this mission too the parish-school system is being so diligently pursued and is flourishing so beautifully. We have two schools there with two teachers. But it is precisely the schools that are now giving us concern. London's school authority, the County Council, has, after an inspection, declared the present staffing of the school in Kentish Town with only one teacher insufficient, and demands the appointment of a second teacher. At the request of our brethren there, the authority has declared itself willing to...

24 pastors and 2 professors are at work there. — The three candidates approved in May by the Assignment Committee and called by the Mission Commission have unfortunately declined.

2) Compare also the resolutions concerning the individual training institutions, especially Porto Alegre. The building resolved on for this institution at the Delegate Synod is, as with the other institutions, to be carried out at the expense of the General Building Fund, under the rules applying to all institutions. In accordance with the recommendation of Committee No. 1, the $5000.00 approved for the new building at Porto Alegre is to be taken from the Building Fund and not from the mission treasury. This is expressly noted because, despite a correction offered, this item of $5000.00 was omitted from a published list of the Building Fund's appropriations.